| Description |
xi, 238 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Communication and information science |
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Communication and information science.
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| Contents |
Part I. Vietnam as political metaphor -- On Americans held prisoner in Southeast Asia : the P.O.W. issue as "lesson" of Vietnam / Peter Ehrenhaus -- AIM's Vietnam and the rhetoric of Cold War orthodoxy / Robert L. Ivie -- "Vietnam" and the politics of history / Philip Wander and Melissa Kane -- Part II. Vietnam and the shaping of popular imagination -- The American idea of national identity : patriotism and poetic sensibility before and after Vietnam / Adi Wimmer -- Images of the warrior returned : Vietnam veterans in popular American films / George Dionisopoulos -- The pride is back : Rambo, Magnum P.I., and the return trip to Vietnam / Harry W. Haines -- Reproducing fathers : gender and the Vietnam War in American culture / Susan Jeffords -- Part III. Vietnam and the shaping of American cultures -- Cultural communication among Vietnam veterans : ritual, myth, and social drama / Charles A. Braithwaite -- Vietnam and the second American inner revolution / Elizabeth Walker Mechling and Jay Mechling -- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the myth of superiority / Richard Morris -- Epilogue Forms of remembering, forms of forgetting / Peter Ehrenhaus and Richard Morris |
| Analysis |
United States Civilization 1945- |
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Influence |
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Influence.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139945
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| Author |
Ehrenhaus, Peter Charles.
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Morris, Richard Joseph, 1953-
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| LC no. |
90000971 |
| ISBN |
0893916358 |
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0893917133 |
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